PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 35 57
Rank change year-on-year -28 +22 +17
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 8 46 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.67% 5.99% 3.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.02% 18.18% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile - £71,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £72,188 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £82,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +50.00% -15.84%
75th Percentile £53,750 £90,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £56,750 - £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 253 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.18% 32.94% 37.76%
Number of salaries quoted 89 106 249
10th Percentile - £25,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,451 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -15.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £92,500 £80,400
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (37.50%) OneDrive
3 3 (37.50%) Power Automate
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) SaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Broadband
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) Employee Productivity
2 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Tech Ops
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Meraki
3 2 (25.00%) Veeam
4 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
4 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (12.50%) YouTube